Michael Dorf Quotations
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Ceremony Quotes
We picked a radical. Someone not typically considered, someone who has never been honored by the UJA for any Jewish function. It's out of left field, and that allows us a lot of room to grow. At the same ceremony we will also be honoring Debbie Friedman; ours is a very wide definition of Jewish music.
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Adopting Quotes
Jewish music has come an extremely long way since Bob Zimmerman changed his name to Dylan. Now you have Madonna adopting Jewish culture and making it pop, showing the Hebrew aleph on a backdrop in her concerts. It's an interesting phenomenon, and the festival is a bit of a manifestation that Jewish music is becoming a genre of sorts.